Kerry Drama Festival 2018 Results

Walker Ewart (left), Jerome Stack and members of the Kerry Drama Festival announce the results.

Kerry Drama Festival was delayed by one day because of the snow (the Beast from the East) but this did not stop eight nights of top class entertainment at the Ivy Leaf Theatre in Castleisland.
There were four plays in the Confined Section and four plays in the Open Section and the standard was very high making the job of adjudicator Walker Ewart very difficult. Mr Ewart gave the most thorough, passionate, informative and fair summing up of the plays each night and in the end he had the unenviable task of separating the winners from the losers.
Here are the Kerry Drama Festival 2018 Results:

Award

Section

Winner

Drama Group

Play

Premier Award

Open

Sylvia

Prosperous Drama Group

Sylvia

Best Director

Open

Lurlene Dugan

Prosperous Drama Group

Sylvia

Winning Play

Confined

Moonglow

Sliabh Aughty Drama Group

Moonglow

Best Director

Confined

Siobhán Donnellan

Sliabh Aughty Drama Group

Moonglow

Best Actor

Open

Seán Aherne

Brideview Drama Group

Stolen Child

Best Actress

Open

Ashleigh O'Neill

Prosperous Drama Group

Sylvia

Best Actor

Confined

Alan Sparling

Sliabh Aughty Drama Group

Moonglow

Best Actress

Confined

Jenny Bracken

Holycross-Ballycahill

Bold Girls

Best Supporting Actor

Open

James Murphy

Prosperous Drama Group

Sylvia

Best Supporting Actress

Open

Rosaire Murphy

Kilmeen Drama Group

The Shaughraun

Best Supporting Actor

Confined

Paul Delaney

Skibbereen Theatre Society

Abigail's Party

Best Supporting Actress

Confined

Eavan Brennan

Sliabh Aughty Drama Group

Moonglow

Best Young Actor/Actress

Open/Confined

Fiona Hogan

Sliabh Aughty Drama Group

Moonglow

Best Visual Presentation

Open/Confined

Prosperous Drama Group

Prosperous Drama Group

Sylvia

Best Stage Management

Open/Confined

Brideview Drama Group

Brideview Drama Group

Stolen Child

Great credit is due to the committee and volunteers who make this event possible. There is a massive of work and organisation involved to stage what is one of the best weeks of entertainment in the county.
Where would you get such great enertainment at great value?

So for all those who may not be aware of this great festival, now is the time to set aside the first week of March 2019 in your diary!